In the 2016 defense bill, Congress told the Department of Defense to split up its office of Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. Now, the secretary of defense is tasking his deputy with moving forward on that and other DOD restructuring.
The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act mandated the split of the Pentagon's AT&L office into two separate entities: an office of Research and Engineering and an Office of Acquisition and Sustainment, each headed by an undersecretary of defense.
Secretary Jim Mattis issued a memo on Feb. 17 tasking acting deputy secretary Robert Work with leading a review of Pentagon business practices – particularly those that do not merit individual military department approaches -- to improve efficiency and come into compliance with the 2017 NDAA.
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Ben FitzGerald
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Defense Program
Ben FitzGerald is a partner at Lupa, a private investment firm, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). At Lupa he leads the firm’s inve...
